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As we can see from this, AIP's posters were getting a lot more sophisticated. Several films that year that had monsters of sorts--The Terror, The Haunted Palace--forwent them on the poster art to push more the Vincent Price or Boris Karloff angles. This one also is a bit of a cheat for us, but…

If YouTube had existed back in the day there definitely would have been a channel dedicated to comparing what the poster promised and what the movie delivered. Even so, again, at least with Corman's films you got surprisingly decent film making and generally a witty script and decent to very good acting.

I'd like to point out that this is not only a poster for an AIP film, and a Roger Corman film, but the cheapest AIP / Roger Corman film either entity ever made. The fact that AIP was counting on a hipster crowd for this film is pretty amazing. Although certainly the film warrants…

I have to admit, I don't remember much about this one. Were there (stock footage) dinosaurs in it, or is this a really out there interpretation of the Night of the Blood Beast suit used as the film's "monster." I do know I was never the world's biggest Robert Vaughn fan, and even as…

Warning: Poster may only be 92% accurate as to scale of film.

One thing I've noticed is that although movie posters for cheapie monster movies are notorious for exaggerating the monsters to make them look more amazing, AIP didn't bother with that for Paul Blaisdell monsters. They presented them more or less as they appeared in the films, because, you know, they were actually amazing already.

Man, posters used to be nice. At least when you got a Corman film there was payoff.

I couldn't find a foreign poster for this, but hey, the American poster was very nice. I'd say it's better than the film, but again, Corman films are deceptively good. Sure, if you compare it Forbidden Planet, it's not a great movie. However, if you compare it to other sci-fi cheapies from the '50s,…